Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.